CEO
also referred to as: ceos
7 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2025 by Les Craig · across every show →
Everything said about CEO, oldest first
Feb 27, 2025
A startup CEO's primary job from Seed to Series B is fundraising
“A CEO's job is to fundraise. Literally, the successful CEO's Are, and this is of an early stage company, right? Don't take that quote and make like a meme of me. It's really, no, that's not independent. It's like series seed to really, I would say series B. Yo…”
Jun 4, 2025 negative
Non-Essential Investor Requests Directly Reduce a Startup's Probability of Success
“The CEO's time is simultaneously the company's most valuable resource and it's most constrained, so I don't want stuff lobbed over the fence at me. Anything that I'm dealing with that I don't have to, like, actually reduces the probability of success”
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Jul 3, 2025 positive
Chan: Commercial validation and runway dramatically improve executive hiring for spin-outs
“Our thesis, and it's proved to be true, is that the caliber of people that you can attract to a startup like these are early, but if you can get them out of the lab, you can answer some questions around, okay, these are the parties that we, that have expressed…”
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Shtabtsovsky: Data-Driven VC Research Shows Somewhat Technical CEOs Perform Better
“Yeah, I think there are a couple of papers out there and a couple of, again, data-driven VCs who publish some results of the data and statistics, and I think, yes, it's it is, is the case that some, somewhat technical CEOs make the better CEOs.”
Sep 8, 2025